Geoffrey
Nash is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sunderland.
He is the author of The Anglo-Arab Encounter: Fiction
and Autobiography by Arab Writers in English; Writing
Muslim Identity; and co-editor of Postcolonialism and
Islam.

This book looks at
the first generation of Arab British and Arab American writers
to produce English writings in the earlier twentieth-century: Ameen
Rihani, Khalil Jibran, George Antonius and Edward Atiyah. It theorises
their work within the context of Arab nationalism, postcolonialism
and the criticism of Edward Said.

Geoffrey Nash’s The Arab Writer in English and his The Anglo-Arab
Encounter…together offer the most detailed study to date of
Arab British literature.
Professor Wail S. Hassan, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

By the end … the reader… feels their perspective on Middle East history
and writing has been extended…Overall Nash builds a sensitive,
engaged, and highly intelligent awareness of his subject.
Dr Howard
J. Booth, Manchester University

All who are interested in the varieties and complexities
of the relationship between the Arab world and the West in the twentieth
century should consult it and ponder the issues that it so provocatively
raises.
From the Foreword by Miles L. Bradbury, University
of Maryland

An innovative book which will be of great
interest to anyone working in comparative literature or post-colonialism.
Professor Susan Bassnett, Centre for British & Comparative Cultural
Studies, The University of Warwick

Nash examines the English writings of four 20th-century Arab writers, all of whom were Lebanese Christians but, with one exception, lived outside of Lebanon. They inherited the mantle of cultural mediation from generations of Arab Christians, he says, but instead of mediating Western culture to Arab Asia as their predecessors had done, they mediated Arab culture and political concerns to the West. The writers are Ameen Rihani, Khalil Jibran, George Antonius, and Edward Atiyah. Protoview.com

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